The Guardian: Musharraf insists: I'm not George Bush's poodle

[deminks]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,1763499,00.html?gusrc=rss

General Pervez Musharraf, facing a surge of anti-American sentiment, yesterday warned that covert US air strikes against al-Qaida inside Pakistan were an infringement of national sovereignty.

Admitting that his popularity was waning, the Pakistani president insisted he was "not a poodle" of George Bush and rejected accusations he was running a military dictatorship.

Speaking to the Guardian at Army House in Rawalpindi weeks after a tense visit by the US president that brought a torrent of domestic criticism, Gen Musharraf insisted he was his own man.

"When you are talking about fighting terrorism or extremism, I'm not doing that for the US or Britain. I'm doing it for Pakistan," he said. "It's not a question of being a poodle. I'm nobody's poodle. I have enough strength of my own to lead."

[dogman]

1. That's Tony Blair's job.

Musharraf is his Pakistani bulldog.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Of course not; that job is taken by Tony Blair

Musharraf is more of an Afghan hound.